Quote#Wisdom
He must find his chief reward and stimulus in the sense of discovery…
Quote byHenry Fairfield Osborn · 1857–1935
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Introduction" in Charles Sternberg's The Life of a Fossil Hunter (1909), p. xii..
English (original)
he must find his chief reward and stimulus in the sense of discovery and in the despatching of specimens to museums which he has never seen for the benefit of a public which has little knowledge or appreciation of the self-sacrifices which the fossil hunter has made.
— Henry Fairfield Osborn
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